Webinar: Vote Rainbow Equality: Engaging in the Federal Election [EN]
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Webinar: Vote Rainbow Equality: Engaging in the Federal Election [EN]
April 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Wednesday, April 16, 2025, from 12 PM to 1 PM EDT
With a federal election underway, join us to explore how you can show up and vote for issues impacting queer and trans people. This session will equip attendees with strategies to protect and uphold queer and trans human rights, and push back against the targeting of queer and trans human rights.
Fae Johnstone of the Society of Queer Momentum, will share the creative, engaging, and non-partisan election campaigns “Drag the Vote” and “Vote Rainbow Equality”. Learn how you and your communities and workplaces can get out to vote for the issues that matter.
Learning objectives:
- Understand the Drag the Vote and Vote Rainbow Equality Campaigns
- Explore how queer and trans issues are being targeted
- Learn practical actions to protect and uphold queer and trans human rights
Target audience:
- Queer and trans people
- Allies dedicated to upholding human rights
Presenter
Fae Johnstone (she/her), Executive Director, Society of Queer Momentum
Fae Johnstone has dedicated her life to advancing equality, freedom and rights for queer and trans people. With over a decade of advocacy under her belt, she is a force to be reckoned with and one of Canada’s most prominent queer human rights advocates.
As Executive Director and Co-Founder of the Society of Queer Momentum, Fae is on a mission to mobilize advocates and allies towards a more free, equal and socially just future. Within her advocacy, she travels across Canada supporting queer advocates and allies on the ground, gracing conference stages and building bridges with allies and sibling movements in every province and territory.
Fae has received numerous awards and accolades for her work, including serving as Grand Marshal of the Ottawa Capital Pride Parade in 2023 and National Grand Marshal of Saskatoon Pride in 2024. She was also on a chocolate bar.
Accessibility:
- Spoken language: English
- Automatic translation: English to French
- Closed captioning provided: English and French
- Format: Virtual (Zoom in webinar mode)
- Engagement type: participants invited to engage via chat (no audio or video)
- Please register below additional accessibility requests. Any questions may be sent to events@prideatwork.ca
